Explosive? No, sprinkler parts, in another false alarm at port

[LSK]

MIAMI - The Port of Miami had its second false terrorism alarm in two days Monday when a package waiting to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosive. Authorities later found it was harmless.

A Miami-Dade County police bomb squad destroyed the box and then checked it, said Zach Mann, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman. The box held sprinkler parts, which contained a substance that "closely resembles" the military-grade explosive known as C4, police spokesman Bobby Williams said.

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/09/State/Explosive_No__sprinkl.shtml

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1. Next thing you know, they won't let you take sprinkler parts on planes

This is out of control! :silly:

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. BTW, what ever became of that liquid bomb thing?

Have they let those people go yet? It's gone completely silent, so I would assume that the whole thing has or will vanish.

[LSK]

3. good question

I recall that a few were already released a few days later.